Prepare offers comprehensive violence prevention training and personal safety programs. In all our programs, we situate violence in the social and cultural context within which it exists. Along with the broad spectrum of curriculum we offer, we support the work of others in the anti-violence community. Our primary prevention programs work to change beliefs and behaviors before they lead to violence: health and life skills education, anti-bias and anti-bullying programs, and social and emotional learning fundamentals. We are best known for our secondary prevention self-defense and personal safety courses which feature the suited instructor: IMPACT Basics and Prepare classes for kids and teens. Our classes empower individuals to lead their lives fully, with the confidence that they have the tools to better manage what life brings their way.
By Anastasia Higginbotham What Is Enough? Recently, my teaching partner and I taught a class of high schoolers. For the fourth and final class, I shared a goal to look at the question of: What is enough? In terms of their self-defense education, I offered a list of what can be in plenty of situations enough to keep ourselves safer. Volume/being heard/being loud; Sharpness, as in: clarity of intention and execution, focusing your voice and body with a singular goal; Targeting, as in: aiming for a part of the body that is especially vulnerable; Slowing down to speed up, as in: practicing slowly to build in smooth transitions and generate momentum; Rhythm, as in: strike, breathe, strike, breathe, assess; Congruency,…